The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-10
BRO9KEAVEN, MISS.
The Best and Most Attractive
Town On the LC. Rail-
road South Of Jackson.
Its Location, Size, Healtbfulness'
and other Points of Interest
which the Stranger Wishes
to Know,

The city of Brookhaven Is located on
the Illinois Central Railroad. 129 miles
north of New Orleans, So miles south
Of Jackson, the State Capital, and 756
miles south of Chicago. 1t is 500 feet
above tidewater. and is the highest
point on the Illinois Central Railroad
between the Gulf of Mexico and Holly
Springs, Miss. 200 miles TO the north
It is the county site of Lincoln county,
where all county business is transacted,
and is the only town in the county ex-
cept Bogue Chitoo, a email place situated
zen miles south. The corporate limits
embrace a square mile, OF which the
railroad depot is the centre. Its streets
are we'll paved with brick and gravel.
and such thing as mud and slush Is
hardly known. Many of the streets
are lined with water oak and other
shade trees, and the railroad park forms
an attractive feature of Railroad av-
anue. The houses of the city are well
built and substantial. Those in the
business district are mainly OF brick,
while the residences are uniformly
frame, and many Of them quite stately
and handsome. Quite a number of
handsome new residences and business
houses have been erected during the
past two years, and many others en-
.arged or otherwise improved
Bus'n&ss iereot.
The business of i}rookhaven Is of
staple and promising chara ter. The
record will show that there have been
fewer failures among her business men
han in any other town of like size In
The State 1t is the market and trading
point of a majority o the people OF the
county. as we'll as very large proportion
from Franklin, Jefferson and Lawrence
counties The different business and
professional vocations represented are
briefly summed up rs follows: Twen-
ty-fve general me camille houses; three
drug stores; three millinery stores; two
bakeries; four hote and two boarding
houses; two restaurants and fancy gro
Gerry stores; one undertaken and hard
ware store; one store and tin house; one
furniture house; three boot and shoe
makers; two dental oilcc,; enc photo
graph gallery; two newspapers; one
jeweler; four phys cians: seven lawyers;
two insurance Ggenc eS; one foundry;
Ink Il
one blacksmith shop an one blacksmith
and wagon shop; Two verg stables;
six carpenters; three bsrSer1. one mar
ket house, and one real IS ate agency.
A number o. our Mercantile houses
carry stock. which in srz., variety and
quality. coo pare or,biy With those
Of pia - OF mu.h greater size. IRE
saw NILS of the county, W III their hun
DIS OF employees aud dependents, and
.ne urdy agri' IL turai populat on. W Il
,as min and ooItiuu' lily nc. ease our
com lerclt,l importau Z.
o., . ia, IL "a :'rype:tv Valuation.
BY the ceusls of $50. The to al pop
uiatiou within the city 5 shown To be
,5iJ--the whites beng largely in the
majority. - this time he number " Il
q,t tail b. |, w 1850. and ii We except
.ho manufacturing town OF Weason,
ZEN M les north 4 is The largest o; any
Town on the II no:s C.n.ral between
New Or.enns and jackson. AS a IN g,
the people are iuto,li ent, h.hly cul-
turod, industrious. social AMI heSpitN-
Die. Nearly ali oi The fore IN pOpu a
ton Of tho county is cone n aled here
embracing 8 number Of different ma
t;onalties. but all harnonizing and
mingling together rs citizens OF a COM
mon couptry without the least discord
The jew sh - the re onder t ng foreign
ement, and here ~ e 7rwhere its rep
most res. onsible, energetic and public
,pirtel mtr hans ana bu Inc - men.
Our town doc.' not sn,W II rapi,l in
crease OF wealti, but rs growth is
S.eaAy and h-a thy. The assessed va
;lat Oh OF pyo, city for 1896 is as fol-
lows: Really, ) 81. go; por,onalty,
.lt7,e9 total, $i37, Oli
The financial status o. the city is ex-
ceIlrnt IL is o 1 of d, bit and its war;
nts at par. Neither are taxes exor5-
liant, the low TOR 1896 beng u mills
including school tai.
Al the business port on of the city is
prov died. with large publ ci>terns, and
Q good hand engine and hook and lad
der apparatus, operated by four COM
panies of well organi. ell volunteer fire.
men, furnish reasonable safety from
the destruct on OF the iire-tiend.
~oo'sSy. SCHOOLS and Churches.
Brookhayen has ever been noted for
the beauty of her women and the gal
lantry of her men, aad in point of in
tellgence. culture and animation
her society circles will compare favora-
bly, with those of any other community.
Bishop @. B. Galloway. of the NJ. E
Church. South; Hon. j. B. Chrisman,
Judge of the Tenth judicial District;
Hon. j. +. Sessions, President of the
Mississippi Railroad Commission; Pres
ident Fitzhugh. of Whitworth College,
and many Others of high social position
and intelligence reside here.
With schools our city is highly fav-
ored fIpst and foremost of those IL
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